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NTEN's Website Redesign: Survey results from the community

NTEN

With NTEN''s website redesign project underway, we took a step back and asked, "How do we know how our users use our site and what they want if we don''t ask? So we turned to the NTEN community, as we will continue to do at various stages of the redesign process, for your candid feedback about the NTEN website.

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Taxonomy VS Folksonomy: Google Fight

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Holly at NTEN has a post titled " Taxonomy vs Folksonomy." Taxonomy won! Holly also posted a response to the How Are You Using the NpTech Tag with " Taxonomies are for Chumps " post. all you need do is just tag something "NPTECH" and mention "folksonomy." No surprise.

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From the Collective Desk of NTEN Discuss

NTEN

Flickr Photo: Peat Bakke Sharing and lessons learned is what the NTEN Affinity Group Discuss list is all about. Some excellent resources emerged from this discussion, so I thought I'd share highlights here and invite you to join the conversation on the NTEN Discuss list. This is exactly what Beau Elston, Riverfront, Inc.

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Great reads from around the web on July 18th

Amy Sample Ward

Today, I’ll start with a basic taxonomy of these trends, and unpack each one over time. Today, I’m launching a series on Mapping Trends in Philanthropy, to share what I am learning and invite a conversation with leaders in the field. " International Digital Youth Work Events, 20th-23rd Sep – What can you share?

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Tagging Discussion

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ll agree with Gavin, that folksonomies sure are less efficient, and a lot more messy than taxonomies. And, there is one really big thing that using taxonomies miss, that folksonomies get: who is doing the categorizing? Technorati Tags: nptech , tagging , folksonomies { 1 trackback } Beths Blog 01.08.07

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Building Blocks of Social Media - Webinar slides and notes

Amy Sample Ward

Today was the first webinar in the Storytelling & Social Media series from NTEN and TechSoup Global. tags: nonprofit nptech ). If you are using Delicious, for example, you don’t need to create a list of tags or a taxonomy you have to stick to before you actually start saving bookmarks. How do you create a tag?

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. org / blog /2007/03/20/ nptech - tagging - community. Further reading: http :// www.